The authors describe an actual case where the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic decided that an employee is entitled to compensation of lost income after termination of work incapacity on account of an occupational disease despite the fact that the appropriate department for occupational diseases issued a certificate that the occupational disease no longer persists. The Supreme Court of the Czech Republic was not concerned with the problem whether the certificate on termination of occupational disease justified from the professional aspect and is correct. For decision on the sum of the claim on account of occupational disease according to the Supreme Court it is important whether in the subject since the beginning of this claim a substantial change of the health status occurred and not the fact how the possible change of health status is evaluated from the aspect of criteria valid for decisions on the presence of occupational diseases.

        Key words: termination of occupational disease, claim for compensation, decision of Supreme Court